Measuring electrical properties of the lower troposphere using enhanced meteorological radiosondes

Harrison, R. Giles

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-11-37-2022

Articles | Volume 11, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-11-37-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-11-37-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 1

Review article

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27 Jan 2022

Review article |

| 27 Jan 2022

Measuring electrical properties of the lower troposphere using enhanced meteorological radiosondes

R. Giles Harrison

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Final revised paper (published on 27 Jan 2022)
Preprint (discussion started on 27 Sep 2021)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

RC1:
'Comment on gi-2021-26: Measuring electrical properties of the lower troposphere using enhanced meteorological radiosondes by G. Harrison', Anonymous Referee #1, 04 Nov 2021

This paper is a summary of the author's medal lecture given at European Geoscience Union meeting. It is clear and comprehensive overwiev of the meteorological radiosondes applications and its challenges beyond its main purpose of weather forecasting. The study revises and discusses the standard radiosondes measurements possibilities when equiped with additional sensors for a specific scientific applications. Reviewed applications, besides measuring atmospheric electricity, include the space weather, turbulence, radiactivity, clouds and volcanic ash. The huge adavntage of such measurements is that they can be easily obtained at low cost and many locations, praticulary by adapting self-configuring interfaces, that does not affect the meteorological data and retain the radiosonde original purpose. The manuscript is well motivated, very well written, discussed applications are supported by proper figures and well referenced.

Therefore I recommend the publication of this work in GIMDS.

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-2021-26-RC1
- AC1: 'Reply on RC1', R.Giles Harrison, 04 Nov 2021
  
  Thank you for the careful reading of the manuscript, which I appreciate.
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-2021-26-AC1
RC2:
'Comment on gi-2021-26', Walter Schmidt, 11 Nov 2021

The comment was uploaded in the form of a supplement: https://gi.copernicus.org/preprints/gi-2021-26/gi-2021-26-RC2-supplement.pdf

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-2021-26-RC2
- AC2: 'Reply on RC2', R.Giles Harrison, 11 Nov 2021
  
  I thank Walter Schmidt for his thorough reading of the manuscript and the helpful comments made, which I will address in a revision. It is most encouraging that the paper was so well received.
  It is also interesting to learn that "bespoke" is, unfortunately, a little opaque. I will give it some thought!
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-2021-26-AC2

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision | EF: Editorial file upload

AR by R.Giles Harrison on behalf of the Authors (01 Dec 2021) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (16 Dec 2021) by Ralf Srama

AR by R.Giles Harrison on behalf of the Authors (16 Dec 2021)

Short summary

Weather balloons are released every day around the world to obtain the latest atmospheric data for weather forecasting. Expanding the range of sensors they carry can make additional quantities available, such as for atmospheric turbulence, cloud electricity, energetic particles from space and, in emergency situations, volcanic ash or radioactivity. An adaptable system has been developed to provide these and other measurements, without interfering with the core weather data.